Specifically I am looking for Eventing Training Test A. Looking for the scoring sheet the judge will be using with space for comments.
I tried to do the same a year ago and no luck. I finally took an old test of mine, used white out on all the comments and then copied the “new” blank form. It was really frustrating.
You have to buy the eventing dressage tests from USEA. There’s even a note on them stating that reproduction without permission is prohibited by law.
Eventing is the ONLY set of dressage tests that are not available online for download. If you ask when you call USEA, all you get is the “we don’t own them, USEF does and thus we have to charge”… which is complete and utter BS since USEF owns most of the other dressage tests and you can download them! It’s really rather annoying.
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Eventing is the ONLY set of dressage tests that are not available online for download. If you ask when you call USEA, all you get is the “we don’t own them, USEF does and thus we have to charge”… which is complete and utter BS since USEF owns most of the other dressage tests and you can download them! It’s really rather annoying.[/QUOTE]
Maybe we should make requests to the USEF and USEA that they be available? I can’t imagine that printing them and mailing them is a cheap proposition; why not make it available for free and push the cost of printing onto someone else?
Odd.
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Maybe we should make requests to the USEF and USEA that they be available? I can’t imagine that printing them and mailing them is a cheap proposition; why not make it available for free and push the cost of printing onto someone else?
Odd.[/QUOTE]
Request has been made. More than once.
I even had the opportunity to present the case for downloadable Eventing Dressage tests to one of the USEA committees (I forget which one). My case was based on dressage schooling shows, and focused on timeliness rather than cost (you get an Eventing-test entry on Tuesday for a show on Saturday, you have to pay “rush” fees to get the tests in time). I said that downloading for a fee would be better than having no downloadable tests.
The committee was reasonably receptive, but the request was turned down anyway.
Apparently the income that they get from charging for the tests is not something they want to give up.
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Apparently the income that they get from charging for the tests is not something they want to give up.[/QUOTE]
Which is exactly how it comes across when you question them. Sad.
I don’t have any problem with there being a fee for scorable tests, but a downloadable version would be Oh-So-Helpful.
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Apparently the income that they get from charging for the tests is not something they want to give up.[/QUOTE]
I was assuming that it couldn’t be that profitable, but I guess I’m wrong. I would think that fulfillment and postage would be not cheap, even if the actual printing costs were.
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Apparently the income that they get from charging for the tests is not something they want to give up.[/QUOTE]
I was assuming that it couldn’t be that profitable, but I guess I’m wrong. I would think that fulfillment and postage would be not cheap, even if the actual printing costs were.
I guess the technology doesn’t exist, to enforce the purchase of a license to print them each calendar year?
There ARE downloadable versions, but they are only provided to recognized HT. Then, IIRC, the HT is charged a dressage-test-fee per dressage starter. So they have, in theory, a way to know how many copies were printed out.
With an individual, or a schooling show, they have no way to know how many copies were printed, or charge a per-test-printed fee.
Of course, when the same organization runs recognized and unrecognized competitions, who knows how many they print out?
